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Repost of my Baldur's Gate 1 updates: -------------- I'm still having choice paralysis on a BG1 class. Monk looks interesting now but I'm still leaning Fighter. Looks like this has both Mage and Sorcerer, thought Sorcerer wasn't until BG2. Maybe they streamlined classes too in this version...

Moving my CRPG blogging over to Rajaah's CRPG Blog One more note on BG1: I think people are short-changing Neera a bit. For a Beamdog character, she was pretty awesome. A lot of fun dialogue-wise and I ended up inadvertently romancing her. Never really went anywhere but it added a lot to the game.

Hello frens, here's where I'll post my CRPG updates from the Great CRPG Crusade. Also everyone else feel free to post anything CRPG-related here and discuss anything CRPG-related. Here's the big list of things I'm gonna play. 20 things in all, so each one is 5% of the crusade. I've got System...

Oh yeah, I know you were. Problem is, you're also right. I'm gonna look like the South Park kids at the end of the Warcraft episode by the time I get to the end of the list... ...unless I manage to plow all of them in 20 hours like I did with BG1. Then this won't take a super long time, a few...

I should probably start a "Rajaah's CRPG Blog" thread at this point so people can follow on my 12-game celibate voyage of losing muscle tone and getting fat and pimply and no longer being appealing to women. But By God, in exchange I get to play some fantastic games!

There's also the Rajaah Vaniki Experience: Camp stuff in Lower Guk, have people show up to a cleared camp and "not see you" and start camping, then when the room respawns and you de-cloak and out-DPS them on all the mobs, they go ballistic and accuse you of stealing their camp, then rant about...

I think I'll give SoD a run and switch it down to Story Mode, just to get the story without struggling with the actual gameplay portion. This'll also make it take a lot less time. I'll turn it back up to Normal for BG2. I checked out the beginning of both of them already, and while BG2 is...

All races/all classes would be cool, but it would either require adding a ton of new NPCs to zones / accounting for factions / etc, OR having the server start at a point where the towns no longer matter in that sense. So... a PoP start server.

Yeah, I didn't think that one through at all. So wait, that's it? No J-Chan onlyfans announcement? Am I the only one who wants to keep this company afloat, dammit?

Gonna miss running around at bardspeed with the Cheetah Boots. Don't even remember where I got those but it was a real game-changer. Was zipping all over the place for the second half of the game. Not looking forward to going back to normal walk speed in future games. These boots are probably a...

I set aside a lot of time for it and then could not turn it off, was crazy. Been ages since that happened. Not sure what it is that's so compelling about this game, but I always wanted to finish a level up, or look into a side quest someone gave me, or check out a newly-appeared map location. It...

Yeah, it's the EE. I've got the EEs for BG1+2, ID+PT, and NW. Gotta go original version for FO1+2 and TOEE which I wasn't planning on until today. On Chapter 6 now, everyone's at level 6-7 and finally kicking some ass. The Ankheg cave got me several levels, and you can also lug their shells...

What do these P numbers translate to in terms of raw number of actual people on? Like what does Firiona get on an average weeknight compared to Coirnav? Looks to me like everything from Antonius on down is pretty dead. Zek, Agnarr, and Vaniki all serve a purpose (and one is in-progress) but I...

Yep, and a year and a half later, I'm finally doing it! Ended up abandoning the PoE playthrough fairly early and now starting with Baldur 1. It's good times. So wait, is Temple of Elemental Evil not good? Was reading about how great it was in the other thread so I went ahead and bought it to...

Cool, now I get it, the character in question needs to have it in their inventory and examine it. I pooled all my spells to Dynaheir and booted out the other two, getting a lot more exp now with hero/Minsc/Imoen/Dynaheir. Might just keep it like this, might go back and recruit Jaheira/Khalid...

Noob question, when I get scrolls like this with a spell on them, can mages "scribe" those? Or are they just a one-shot quick item? My "Mage Spells" book is empty and no options to add anything to it. As it is all my casters have is Magic Missile and it's been like that for ages (on Chapter 3...

Yeah that looks like a zone map for one of the Sols, you can see the lava.

Looking forward to Icewind Dale and a fully-customizable party being the intention, but I'm enjoying characters with actual personality in the meantime. Are Planescape and Tides sci-fi games or are they also D&D? Got the impression they were sci-fi or sci-fi adjacent. Speaking of sci-fi I...

Is "Wild Magic" the reason why her attack spells are hitting my party? Cause I noticed a few times that stuff like Entangle or Color Spray were totally fooking up the party as well as the enemies. Hope that was just Neera and not a normal thing, cause if it's how all the casters are, AOEs are...

Started over, got back most of the way to where I was pretty quickly. Got Minsc and his GF, but had to boot Khalid, so I lost the hot druid. Was gonna boot Neela and invite them back, but I got Edwin so now I'm back to not really having room. Speaking of which, where can I get some good caster...

Damn, I shouldn't have gone to the Mines first. Minsc went psycho and I had to kill him! WTF! Just got his GF. I was super close to getting her when he attacked. No reload is gonna fix it either. Apparently it also changed over to Chapter 2 recently, not sure when or why. Is that time-based? I...

A few hours in now, have a full party and I've gotten used to controlling this many people. I've got Imoen, Jaheira, Khalid, Neera, and Minsc. I think Neera is my favorite character at this juncture. Still on Chapter 1 and everyone's level 1, probably barely made any real progress cause I've...

I would like to see them add one new zone to every era, dropping alongside a new TLP reaching those eras (and thus being added to live servers too). Kinda like what they did adding Warrens to classic era way after the game launched. Every expansion has a zone that would make sense to add / an...

I spent like 2 hours last night just creating characters. Eventually I deleted a lot of them and went with my Paladin and a Cleric/Sorc as backup. Then I realized I vastly prefer controlling one character versus controlling a bunch (at least for now) so I started over with just Paladin. Taking...

Yeah, I was just being experimental. Grouping expansions together would make for a much more fun/interesting server. Anyone racing wouldn't get any sleep for a few days at the level 60, 65, and 70 unlocks and that sounds like a good time to me. It would also move things along more quickly which...

Was watching this new season and realized I completely missed the previous season. I didn't even know there WAS one last year. It's a half-length season (6 episodes) but still this is a nice surprise to stumble upon. Last thing I saw was Pandemic Special.

The FF13 trilogy really needs a remaster/collection on modern systems. Another thing that's locked in PS3 purgatory while every other FF is playable on modern systems (including the first 6 in a month or two).

Saw a really crazy idea on that thread: Randomized expansion releases, so you finish Classic and then Broken Mirror gets dropped outta nowhere. That would also be a DOA server, but it could be an interesting idea if it were randomized by level tier and the releases were monthly. Maybe it's not...

I just want to see PS5 somehow get backwards-compatibility with PS3. As it is the PS3 is kind of in a limbo, too recent to reliably emulate and too old for the games to be cheap. It's also very hard to screen-capture or screen-record PS3 games. Probably gonna need to wait for a new system for...

Another good video, gets into Atlantis and Thoth traveling from there to Egypt to teach the Egyptians how to do advanced stuff. And apparently Thoth got his technological information from Sky People who were probably the last survivors of the nuclear war on Mars. ...alright, I'm just speculating...

Alright, I'll drop a few of them to make room. Just Paladin and Druid and go in with that? I already headcanoned that they're banging. I'm like 90% sure that the "Streetwise" male voice in the character creation is the same voice actor as Frank Fontaine from Bioshock. That was quite a surprise!

Characters can be rotated at the inn, right? So I'm not permanently stuck with created characters. I made a Paladin, Druid, Sorcerer, Monk, and Cleric, left a spot for Minsc. Didn't get to actually starting the game though. I could just as well do away with some characters. Only ones I super...

Looks like that weapon is in BG2 only so I'm still having choice paralysis on a BG1 class. Monk looks interesting now but I'm still leaning Fighter. Looks like this has both Mage and Sorcerer, thought Sorcerer wasn't until BG2. Maybe they streamlined classes too in this version? Yeah, I have no...

Maybe she just means the TLPs are just going to experiment with each other sexually. When I was wrapping up college 8 years ago, almost every time I heard the word "experimenting" it was referring to someone getting gay, not science. This is why China will win

That might be a good reason to go Fighter or Ranger instead of Mage. I love beelining to OP weapons, did a lot of that in Elden Ring.

I don't think it was a bit, I think it was an actual guy who was really full of himself

This one could be an artist's DMT trip interpretation of "alien explorer spacecraft landing on a distant world, soon to discover John Carpenter's The Thing on the surface" ...come to think of it, maybe someone can post that one?

Not to single anybody out or anything but Hicks also seemed like a total dingbat

I got one DLC early on. Trying to remember what it was. I think it had something to do with snow? Like "add winter weather and cold streets for "9.99" kind of thing. Had some other stuff included, maybe new building types. I got it because I thought it'd be like a regular game and a DLC was a...